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Exclusive | Inside the secret federal fraud unit you’ve never heard of, who take down billion-dollar crime syndicates

Nypost · · 1495 words · By Chadwick Moore
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Inside the secret federal fraud unit you’ve never heard of, who take down billion-dollar crime syndicates See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google LARGO, MD — Everyday objects cluttered a cramped room, filling every surface and corner with what looks like discarded junk.

Common ground

It’s not a scene from the TV show “Hoarders.” Each piece in this little workshop is bugged—sometimes with cameras so small they’d fit through a pinhole.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 80% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Glittering Generalities 70% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “On Tuesday, agents announced another take down at a press conference in Pennsylvania. Federal authorities smashed a $5.7 million Medicaid racket, indicting 19 suspects in a wildly brazen home care scam.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “HHS-OIG is the primary investigative agency behind... an alleged $38M adult day care scam busted in Brooklyn”
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Multiple sources confirm a $38 million adult day care scam in Brooklyn involving fraudulent Medicaid claims, with one source explicitly linking it to HHS-OIG's investigative efforts.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of New York. The hospitals are listed by the most recent hospital name with the name of the health system, county, city, date the hospital first opened, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_New_York_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, Medicare fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled. There are many different types of Medicare fraud, all of which have th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_fraud
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The family separation policy under the first Trump administration was a controversial immigration enforcement strategy implemented in the United States from 2017 to 2018, aimed at deterring illegal im…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se…
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Claim 3: “The Noc (pronounced ‘knock’), as they call it, short for National Training Operations Center (NTOC), is the high-tech crimefighting headquarters for a branch of law enforcement... the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG).”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results (car rentals, military training centers). No independent source confirms the existence of 'The Noc' or 'NTOC' as the headquarters for HHS-OIG.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Distributed Training Operations Center (DTOC) also known as Detachment 1, 132nd Wing (132 WG), Iowa Air National Guard, is the "support nexus" of the Air National Guard's Distributed Mission Opera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Training_Operation…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fort Irwin National Training Center (Fort Irwin NTC) is a major training area for the United States military in the Mojave Desert in northern San Bernardino County, California. Fort Irwin is at an ave…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Irwin_National_Training_C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Delta 7 (DEL 7) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) for the United States Space Force. The delta provides actionable and time-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Delta_7
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Claim 4: “HHS-OIG also works in partnership with local cops, the FBI, Department of Justice, and state Medicaid authorities.”
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Evidence confirms HHS-OIG monitors State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and works with law enforcement partners (including the DOJ) to combat fraud.
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web search NEUTRAL — HHS-OIG is the federal overseer that certifies and monitors the 53 State and territorial Medicaid Fraud Control Units, which are usually housed in state Attorney General offices and staffed with inves…
https://factually.co/fact-checks/health/how-hhs-investigates…
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web search NEUTRAL — "The Department of Justice's COVID-19 Hoarding and Price Gouging Task Force is working tirelessly around the clock with all our law enforcement partners to ensure that bad actors cannot illicitly prof…
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Federal Agency. Yes. Location. United States.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General's (OIG) mission is to protect the integrity of HHS programs as well as t…
https://www.oversight.gov/inspectors-general/department-heal…
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Claim 5: “OIG is exempt from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 6: “each of his investigators returns on average $45,000 a day in stolen taxpayer funds.”
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While evidence confirms HHS-OIG's role in investigating fraud, none of the provided sources mention the specific figure of $45,000 recovered per day per investigator.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The federal government of the United States empowers a wide range of federal law enforcement agencies (informally known as the "Feds" and "Federal Agents") to maintain law and public order related to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG) is the internal oversight office for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, office of inspector general (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal, state, or local government agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_inspector_general_(U…
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Claim 7: “400 agents are program auditors, who were key in sniffing out $600 million in improper payments across six states in fraud-riddled autism services from 2017-2024.”
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The claim states $600 million in improper payments across six states. However, the evidence provided lists specific audits (Colorado, Indiana, Wisconsin, Maine) totaling at least $198.4 million, which contradicts the $600 million figure.
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web search NEUTRAL — State responds to findings. The inspector general’s office noted that Maine’s spending on services for children with developmental disabilities, including autism, rose significantly from $52.2 million…
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/maine-made-45-6-milli…
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web search NEUTRAL — ...oft-cited HHS-OIG state audits — Colorado ($77.8 million in improper payments), Indiana ($56 million), Wisconsin ($18.5 million), and Maine ($45.6 million) — that account for a total of at least $1…
https://natlawreview.com/article/new-cms-applied-behavior-an…
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web search NEUTRAL — As spending on autism services continues to skyrocket, state Medicaid plans are increasingly proposing ways to curb costs, including caps on the number of ABA hours, age-based restrictions, and rate c…
https://bhbusiness.com/2026/01/23/audit-finds-maine-improper…
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Claim 8: “Hossain... [was] later sentenced for grand larceny”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found after searching for Ballal Hossain's sentencing for grand larceny.
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Claim 9: “with an estimated $100 billion taken by fraudsters each year”
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Multiple independent sources estimate healthcare fraud losses in the US to be around $100 billion annually (one citing $60-100 billion, another specifically $100 billion).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An, AN, aN, or an may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It compr…
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Claim 10: “the 2018 case in New York when a man named Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as caregivers for his mom. The crew was paid $348,000 from Medicaid over six years... all the while she was actually living in Bangladesh.”
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No evidence was found after searching for Ballal Hossain or the specific Medicaid fraud case described.
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Claim 11: “HHS-OIG is the primary investigative agency behind... a $10 billion urinary catheter scheme linked to the Russian mob”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm a urinary catheter fraud scheme involving billions of dollars (one source specifies $10 billion, another $10.6 billion) and link HHS-OIG as the primary investigative agency.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GSK plc (an abbreviation of its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. It was established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and Smith…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSK_plc
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of major whistleblowers from various countries. The individuals below brought attention to abuses by the government or large corporations. Many of these whistleblowers were fired from their …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Under United States law, biological select agents or toxins (BSATs)—or simply select agents for short—are bio-agents which (since 1997) have been declared by the United States Department of Health and…
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Claim 12: “Of the agency’s 1,450 employees over 100 are dedicated to data analytics”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'over' and does not contain any data regarding HHS-OIG employee counts or data analytics staff.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 10, 2026 · The meaning of OVER is across a barrier or intervening space; specifically : across the goal line in football. How to use over in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/over
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web search NEUTRAL — over是英语核心词汇，属于多词性单词，包含副词、介词、名词、形容词和动词用法，基本语义涵盖空间位置、覆盖关系及状态完结，英式音标为[ˈəʊvə(r)]，美式音标为[ˈoʊvər]。作副词时既描述具体动作（如“落下”）也表达抽象概念（如“结束”）；作介词主要表示垂直上方覆盖（如桥梁在河上 ...
https://baike.baidu.com/item/over/79027
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web search NEUTRAL — OVER definition: 1. above or higher than something else, sometimes so that one thing covers the other; above: 2. in…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/over
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.